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the entire metropolis, which was 22.5 per 1000. If, however, in
the absence of definite information respecting deaths of parishioners
taking place out of the parish, we restrict our view to the
deaths of parishioners registered within the parish—deducting
125 deaths at the hospital and 36 at St. Joseph's House—the rate
of mortality was only 18.3 per 1,000. The subjoined table shows
the rate in the several great divisions of the metropolis, as given
by the Registrar.General in his annual summary, and in Kensington:—
DEATH RATE, 1874.
Kensington 19.5 per 1,000
All London 22.5 „
West Districts 20.9 „
North „ 21.8 „
Central „ 25.6 „
East „ 25.4 „
South „ 21.5 „
For registration purposes, Kensington * is divided into two sub.
districts of very unequal size and population, and which, as we
shall see, are not less remarkable in other respects. The Kensington
Town sub.district embraces everything north of the Kensington
main road, and a good deal south of it. The Brompton
sub.district completes the map of the parish, which, I may say, is
exceedingly awkward in shape, being very long from north to
south and very narrow from east to west, and therefore present
considerable difficulties in the task of sanitary administrations.
The Town sub.district comprises two wards, respectively named
the Ward of St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, and the Ward of St.
John, Notting Hill, and St. James, Norland. The latter ward